Farmers, foresters and forest temples: Conservation in the Dong Mun uplands, Northeast Thailand

Geoforum

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 735-749

  Wester, Lyndon ^a   Yongvanit, Sekson ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b KHON KAEN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Buddhism; Conservation; Forests; Thailand; Vegetation

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION PLANNING; FOREST MANAGEMENT; NATURE CONSERVATION; RELIGION;

ASIA; EURASIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; THAILAND;

EID: 28244444562     PISSN: 00167185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2004.08.007     Document Type: Article

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